centrumbase wrote:
Having installed the US patches, the game works. Yay!
It runs smooth, although every now and then, it will judder, and at worst, lock up for a split second.

Yer, you can get rid of the freezes by unpacking the game files and altering the 'prefetch' line (i think) to a higher value so all the stuff loads at the start of an area, rather than bogging down the memory mid-play. Bit of a ballache, but all the info and links are on tweakguides.com.